Chicken Cookie: 4

The Chicken-Cookie series was created for a drawing class. We had 15 minutes
or so to walk out on the Manhattan streets and find something/anything to
draw, and I picked a chicken-cookie.

This is my favorite of the entire series. I wanted to give up all notions
of spatial structure and lay out the chicken cookies and mint leaves in a
jumbled but tight design of interrelationships. The oil pastel provides
the outlines and keeps the chalk from smearing for an intriguing stained-glass
effect. I loved this approach so much, I've continued to do other pieces
in a similar style. This one has also been chopped at the edges because of
my narrow scanner.